Category / Early Years / English / Primary
Teaching English
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Practical advice to improve children’s writing skills
How can you make writing enjoyable for children? Stimulate children’s imaginations using interesting and unusual photos as a starting point.
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It’s non-fiction November
How can we grab and keep a young reader’s interest? Non-fiction texts are just as able to grab a young reader’s interest as works of fiction.
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Creative writing doesn’t have to be boring
What is the most effective way to improve your pupils’ writing? Using a variety of sentence structures results in more imaginative and interesting writing.
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Confidence is key
Making children more confident in their reading and writing is vital. But what is the most effective way of giving children more confidence in reading and writing?
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I don’t know what to say
Children can often write without thinking through the details of who, what, where and how. But they still need to learn about using a more structured approach.
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A sense of achievement
What is the most effective way of getting KS1 children to enhance their enjoyment of the activity of creative writing?
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Celebrate World Poetry Day with lions in the garden!
Download ‘Lions in the Garden’ for World Poetry Day. You will also get a mixture of short and long question types linked to the reading content domains to try.
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What is a bookworm?
I am the definition of a bookworm – I always have at least one book on the go and a large stack waiting to be read…
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Confident, able, motivated
What is the single most effective way of encouraging children to enjoy and benefit from writing creatively?
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How to boost confidence
Strategies are our short cuts to solutions. Once we feel we have strategies in place for each new eventuality, we invariably feel happier and more confident.
